Nigel has recently been an Artist in Residence at The Marine Mammal Laboratory (Tropical Marine Science Institute) of the National University of Singapore; developing a project for ISEA2008 exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore, July ~ August 2008.
Interactive audio cartography, driving a 12.2 immersive speaker rig.
Hydrophone location - Floating fish farm near Palau Ubin
Interface map
Short indicative mix, the project has thousands of...
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This commission for a new Marine facility at Henderson WA has recently been completed. The work is comprised of three elements, a Video-projection work, a series of interactive biomorphic sculptures and an outdoor kinetic work, consisting of six counter-balanced needles which interact with the wind.
Three years on, the landscaping has matured and the kinetic work is as installed.
View from the lounge of the Marine Centre.
Laser cut...
Listen to this space (well a space in Western Australia).
AudioMaze is an interactive project for the new exhibition space at the WA Blind and Guide-Dog AssociationA development of the “Talking Stick” project commissioned by the “Exploratorium” Museum of Science and Human Perception” in San Francisco, AudioMaze presents the sonic experience of an imagioned architectural space. Visitors may interact with the soundscape by using ‘sonic wands’.
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Quint de Loup II was exhibitied at the Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney ~ the show rounded up with a one day seminar on Sound, Art, Architecture and the Environment.
Here is my short presentation.
The download is a bit slow ~ but it’s worth the wait!
Fictionalising Fiction! ~ Nigel Helyer....
The Wireless House is a current public art project commissioned by the City of Sydney as part of the Glebe Point Road upgrade. The wireless House is located in Foley park at the intersection of Glebe Point Road and Pyrmont Bridge road and has an interesting history.
Listen to some oral history material that we have collected in Glebe
and while you are at it…listen into some audio fragments that make up the huge oral history archive that the...
Attentive Listening is not something that many of us allow ourselves the time to do, dominated as we are by a constant flow of visual information, and so mindful of the demands of the clock.
But listening, rather than simply hearing, is an ever present gateway to hidden worlds of detail and narrative; always close at hand, always available, always possible, requiring only our time, attention and concentration.
Be not afeared; this isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet...
‘Swarm’ is the latest development of a series of interactive ‘Theremin’ based sound sculptures (see ‘Ariel’, ‘Caliban’s Children’ and ‘Quint de Loup’). ‘Swarm’ is concieved to operate out-doors and is the first of the series to be solar powered ~ the work is installed in the Werribbe Mansion Park as part of the Herlen Lermpriere Sculpture Award.
Swarm 2005
stainless steel, acrylic, audio electronics, steel rigging cable
Footprint = 8,000 cm x 8,000 cm x 3,500 cm X10...
WHAT SURVIVES: SONIC RESIDUES IN BREATHING BUILDINGS
March 2006 at The Performance Space ~ Curator, Gail Priest.
Consisting of three major gallery-based sound installations and a program of commissioned works for two sound stations in the building, What Survives explores the real and imagined remnants of human presence in architecture.
The structures we build bear silent witness to human behaviour—what have the walls, beams and girders absorbed and what sonic secrets...
KelleRadioActive ~ IASKA (October ~ December 2005).
The history of broadcast media and communications technology have developed at an alarming pace over the last century and it is easy to forget the central role that radio has played in rural Australian communities, both as a form of entertainment and as a vital link.
A few audio file fragments from the automatic radio station.
KRA WSpider drink by...
Monsanto may have stolen the Native Medicines
Novalis may own your cell-line
and Microsoft may have locked up all the picture archives.
But we’ve got your number!
